Commercial

Forest of Beauty

Forest
of Beauty

Tasks:

Tasks:

Modeling, Shading, Layout, Lighting, Rendering, Keying, Compositing

Animation Lead, Animation, Storyboard,
Lighting Assistance, Compositing

Software:

C4D, ZBrush, Redshift, AfterEffects

In this TV commercial a young woman wanders through an enchanted forest and discovers a wide variety of beauty products.

Live-Action Elements

Seamlessly integrating a real-life woman into a completely digital world required detailed planning. Therefore, the vfx supervisor and the director of photography jointly created a 3D layout and which then was matched as closely as possible during filming.

Layout of a Mannequin in a forest
Layout of a Mannequin in a forest
Layout of a Mannequin in a forest
Woman walking in front of a greenscreen
Woman walking in front of a greenscreen
Woman walking in front of a greenscreen

CG World

The fantastical world itself was crafted using a variety of assets. Some were purchased from asset stores and retextured to match the desired style, while I was responsible for creating the more fantastical assets in ZBrush.

Twisted white porcelain tree with orange blossoms
Twisted white porcelain tree with turquoise blossoms
White porcelain tree with pink blossoms
Twisted white porcelain fantasy willow
White porcelain fantasy tree

Combination

Once the world had been set up for the individual shots matching the layout, they needed to be lit and rendered, before compositing the life-action footage. I completed these steps for the following sequence:

Woman running through a fantastical, white porcelain forest
Woman picking beauty products from tree blossoms in a fantastical white porcelain forest
Woman spraying herself with perfume in a fantastical white porcelain forest
Woman passing between trees in a fantastical white porcelain forest

Credits

Flaconi

Client

Neverest

Production

Luis de Maia

Director, Director of Photography

Serviceplan Berlin

Agency

Maggy Fischer

Post-Producer

Manuel Kotulla

Animation & VFX Supervisor

Flaconi

Client

Serviceplan Berlin

Agency

Neverest

Production

Maggy Fischer

Post-Producer

Luis de Maia

Director, Director of Photography

Manuel Kotulla

Animation & VFX Supervisor

Flo Wolff

Colour Grading

Inés Koßack

Layout, Lighting, Rendering, Keying, Compositing

Janine Meyer

Edit

Manuel Kotulla

Layout, Lighting, Rendering, Keying, Compositing

Robert Csakvari

Layout, Lighting, Rendering, Keying, Compositing

Tanja Kerner

Modeling, Shading, Layout, Lighting, Rendering, Keying, Compositing

Flo Wolff

Colour Grading

Manuel Kotulla

Layout, Lighting, Rendering, Keying, Compositing

Inés Koßack

Layout, Lighting, Rendering, Keying, Compositing

Robert Csakvari

Layout, Lighting, Rendering, Keying, Compositing

Janine Meyer

Edit

Tanja Kerner

Modeling, Shading, Layout, Lighting, Rendering, Keying, Compositing